There is (or perhaps it's now was) a rugby stadium pretty much adjacent to Onsu station on Seoul subway Line 1.. I don't think it was ever used for anything more than university rugby, which is pretty much what the domestic rugby league consisted of. I remember watching Korea take on Kazakhstan in an Asian Five Nations match at the Munsu practice pitch, I had hoped they'd have used Onsu for that one but no joy.

According to wikipedia there's a guy Andre Coquillard who came on as a sub for Korea in their last tri-nations match against Hong Kong. He's apparently born in Seoul to an American father and Korean mother. (Anyone know him?) Otherwise everyone else in the squad has Korean sounding names.

The top 5 in Rugby are way ahead of the next 5, and the traditional top 10 are years ahead of everyone else. If you are 25th it means you re not even able to compete with countries like Samoa, Fiji, Japan and the USA, and (apart from Japan in the current World Cup) is nothing to write home about.

It's a sport that needs a strong infrastructure to play. A bit like Ice Hockey. There to you get a bunch of powerhouses and then everyone trailing along.

It's unlikely Korea will improve much on that ranking as they have a team with half of the players in the army, where they played for the first time. The rest are the few who somehow find time to play after they leave the army. Their main position in the region is Japan with a fully professional league in which many seasoned players form the main countries play (all be it at the end of their careers) and Hong Kong who have a total of 3 Eastern Asian looking players in the team. Other rich countries like Singapore cant compete because they don't have the population.

There are two routes to success in football. One is being good. The other is being lucky. You need both to win a championship. But you need only one to win a match.